Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Botley. You may be able to find further references to Botley in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Botley	parish and village with railway station	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Botley within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington	10
William Cobbett	Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey	9
William Cobbett	Oct. 30th to Nov. 8th, 1821: London to Gloucester	2
William Cobbett	July 30th to Aug. 2nd, 1823: Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire	1
William Cobbett	Nov. 7th to 11th, 1825: Burghclere to Petersfield	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th, 1826: Lyndhurst to Godalming	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Hedge End	0	1
Shamblehurst	0	1
Curdridge	0	2
Bursledon	2	2
Swanwick	0	2
West End	4	2
Durley	7	2
Sarisbury	0	2
Shedfield	0	3
Hound	0	2
Fair Oak	0	2
Bitterne	1	2
Sholing	0	2
Itchen	1	3
Bishopstoke	0	2
Wickham	1	3
Bishops Waltham	4	4
Weston	0	3
Netley Abbey	0	2
Mainsbridge	0	2